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88-year-old D.C. Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton tells me this AM: “I’m certainly going to run for reelection.” (Her office has repeatedly walked this back already: axios.com/2025/06/25/nor…)

News: Johnson has no plans to send members home early despite the standstill over Epstein axios.com/2025/07/22/jef…

Thune stuck between Trump's demands, members' recess plans axios.com/2025/07/21/joh…

Thune on Trump’s demand to cancel August recess: “We're thinking about it. We want to get as many noms through the pipeline as we can” He told me he’s talked to Trump about it

News: Sen. McConnell is going to the reconciliation celebration at the White House tonight “Senator McConnell received an invitation and will join many of his colleagues at tonight’s OBBB White House event to celebrate this important win,” a spokesman tells Semafor.

NEWS: Wesley Hunt is inching closer to a TX Senate bid as Cornyn falters in polling and Paxton deals with a messy divorce Hunt launching a new ad tweaking Paxton over divorce axios.com/2025/07/18/wes…

Senate Banking Chair Tim Scott tells reporters that he hopes to release a discussion draft of the Senate's version of CLARITY *next week*. "We'll take that home for August, fight over it, make it better ... and then have a markup in September."

News: The House voted early Friday to approve President Trump's requested clawback of $9 billion in federal funding for PBS, NPR and foreign aid programs The measure passed 216-213 with only Republican support shortly ahead of a Friday night deadline axios.com/2025/07/18/hou…

SCOOP: Trump’s audacious plan to convert Alcatraz back to a maximum- security prison could cost $2 billion, @MarcACaputo reports. Officials have made preliminary cost estimates and made repeated visits to the site. Secs. Bondi and Burgum toured yesterday. axios.com/2025/07/18/tru…

The Senate in the early hours Thursday passed President Trump's requested clawback of $9 billion in federal funding, including for the PBS, NPR and foreign aid programs The final vote was 51-48, with Collins and Murkowski voting against it axios.com/2025/07/17/sen…

Trump is frustrated with the growing backlog of unconfirmed diplomatic nominees piling up on the Senate floor — and he's got Republicans threatening to eat up some of August recess to clear them. w/ @burgessev @ShelbyTalcott semafor.com/article/07/16/…

The decision to withhold this funding is directly contrary to President Trump’s goal of returning K-12 education to the states. This funding goes directly to states and local school districts, where local leaders decide how this funding is spent, because as we know, local…

Murkowski - Collins have filed an amendment to the rescissions package:

And so begins the Senate’s fourth vote-arama of the year

Motion to proceed is passed 51-50 as well, another step forward Up to 10 hours of debate, yet another vote-arama and final passage to come

Mitch McConnell on voting no on procedural votes on rescissions package: “OMB is the problem. They won’t tell us how they’re going to apply the cuts. And since there hasn’t been one of these since 1992, Susan [Collins] went back and compared what was prepared by the Bush…

Senate takes step forward on foreign aid, public broadcasting clawback JD Vance broke the tie, with Collins, Murkowski and McConnell voting no with Democrats axios.com/2025/07/16/sen…

McConnell is a NO

Murkowski and Collins vote no on discharging the rescissions package — one more and Vance will be needed 👀